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Please note I will be on vacation Feb 8-16th. I look forward to assisting you with your project when I return :)

Why Choose Me?

If you are looking for speed, I live and breathe WordPress and WooCommerce performance. I provide tailored speed up services for your site on any type of hosting platform: shared, VPS or dedicated. I have sysadmin and systems engineering skills to provide various approaches. Together, we will squeeze all the speed we can out of your current hosting solution or find a new one that suits you better – usually while saving you money too!

That is over 30x faster!, Michael and his visitors are much happier now!

A jewelry store named Unspoiled Jewels running WooCommerce came to me because they weren’t getting any sales. I ran some speed tests, before optimization it was taking 6.65 seconds (proof) to load.

After my optimizations it took 900 ms. The site size reduced from 5.7MB to 2.1MB (proof) to load.

That is 6x faster! They sold 4 items of jewelry that same week and are selling on average 1 product daily now!

Steve was having to deal with cancelled orders and missing payments daily because his store was running so slowly. He sent me this screenshot, how frustrating and heartbreaking as a store owner! His staff also hated doing any order administration because it was agonizingly slow

After we optimized the hosting, server and application, orders were going through like a dream and the admin team was no longer dreading doing their job in the backend!

Speed Fanatics

Christian had a fast site loading in 1 second he wanted even faster!

I managed to halve that to under 500ms

Pleasing Google’s Speed Tests

Pleasing Google can be challenging but with enough time and effort your site can be in the Excellent category for website speed just like mine!

Excellence in the eyes of Google can be yours so you even beat the top performers :)

Improving gtmetrix scores

Contentful First Paint is how quickly you see consumable visual content for your website. This is absolutely crucial to pleasing your visitors – we are visual creatures!

A contentful first pain(t) of 4.4 seconds is going to cost visitors and increase bounce rate.

After optimizations we can get that crucial contentful first paint to a super fast level like 0.6s!

Or even 248ms for my own site! Google loves faster rendering time

WordPress Admin Performance Benefits

Michael was also frustrated his wp-admin area was very slow. Who can blame him? Who wants to wait 15 seconds to manage their WordPress or WooCommerce site?

It should only take under 2 seconds in the wp-admin backend

Performance Troubleshooting

A very popular news site in Asia was so slow you could not even access the admin area. After I spent several hours troubleshooting the results blew the client (and myself) away!

Thanks to one of my favorite hosts for the New Relic screenshot – a fantastic company with great speed and quality support.

Database Cleanup

One client had an agonizingly slow wp-admin area because of a bloated database which was excruciating to work in.

It used to take 45 seconds to perform anything there

Now it takes around 200ms after a thorough database cleanup!

Take the Leap

If you are looking to take your WordPress or WooCommerce speed optimization to the next level, let’s talk. I have extensive experience with Linux servers as a sysadmin and systems engineer on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and others. Server-side performance solutions like Apache, nginx, Varnish, Redis, memcached, Apache Solr and Elasticsearch are just a few of the technologies I work with daily. I can help you automate with scripting or help harden your site as well the way pros do it.

Work with WordPress Professionals

Tom Usborne from GeneratePress was my first client whom I helped move hosting to save $500 a month and improve the speed of his site. Tom has also implemented performance improvements to his themes based on my feedback. I am privileged to work with Frank Gossens (the creator of Autoptimize) to create new awesome plugins. Most recently, my volunteer performance work has been with Elementor who have been taking on my suggestions to help make Elementor even faster.

Free Time

In my free time I write tutorials for making WordPress faster on WP Bullet Guides and design plugins to make our sites more awesome via WP Bullet. I also weightlift, enjoy watching football and assist on various WordPress groups on Facebook.

Education

Psychology MA from University of St Andrews
Psychology MSc from University of Birmingham
Network Systems Engineer AP from EAL

Customer reviews

Mike Andreasen2018-11-21T02:43:48Z5

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Mike did an amazing job for us! We were experiencing excruciatingly slow speeds on the backend and instability on the frontend. By the end of one day, Mike had reduced our page loads on our backend down from 1 minute to 3 seconds. Our frontend also stabilized and he eliminated the 502 errors. My staff is so excited that they no longer have to wait 30+ seconds for pages to load in WP Admin. Mike is a true professional; super knowledgeable, great communicator, and very accountable. We still have some work to do, but it's comforting to know that he is there as a resource. We will definitely be using Mike again.

Tom Piovoso

Mike Andreasen2018-09-21T12:01:57Z5

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Mike did a great job communicating his plan, his findings and proposing next steps. He was also helpful in discussing topics that were not directly related to the project. Most striking was Mike's honesty in proposing to drop the next steps since he believed (and he was right) that they wouldn't be cost effective and cheaper solutions were available. It is a pleasure working with a developer that isn't just out to write hours, but thinks of the client's needs and puts in extra effort out of his own curiosity. I look forward to working with Mike again in the future.

Ludo Andringa

Mike Andreasen2018-09-21T11:55:08Z5

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This is the second time I have hired Mike and he is always very responsive and has a genuine enthusiasm to help you solve your problems. You won't find anyone who is more knowledgeable on server configs and caching solutions than Mike, he will even educate your hosting company! He is an excellent communicator who takes the time to make sure you understand the problem at hand without jargon and he is a nice guy too. I highly recommend you hire Mike, he is worth every penny.

matt cooper

Mike Andreasen2019-02-22T00:44:47Z5

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Nic Mead

Mike Andreasen2019-02-21T14:48:39Z5

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Allan Hendriks

Mike Andreasen2019-02-21T13:10:07Z4

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Sara Hoidahl

Mike Andreasen2019-02-20T20:40:36Z5

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Mike has been absolutely amazing to work with throughout. We're definitely going to keep working with him long-term.

Danny Neess

Mike Andreasen2019-02-20T20:03:48Z5

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From my experience so far, Mike is extremely professional and helpful. He was very responsive and solved an urgent problem on my website in pretty much no time.

Sebastian Brosche

Mike Andreasen2019-02-20T01:20:35Z5

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Todd Schwartzfarb

Mike Andreasen2019-02-08T18:33:28Z5

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There aren't enough superlatives to adequately describe our satisfaction in the consultation with Mike. Every site owner needs to check out Mike's skills and expertise.

Kathy Rainey

Mike Andreasen2019-02-08T05:06:47Z5

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Mike has been a pleasure to deal with. The time difference was not a problem. I can't sing his praises high enough. If you want a straight shooter and an absolutely expert, look no further than Magic Mike. Mike you are a legend and I will be booking you for further work. I can't thank you enough for the excellent results you have provided. Kind Regards Michelle

Michelle Rhodes

Mike Andreasen2019-02-07T23:17:23Z5

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Extremely helpful and friendly!

Kate Newman

Mike Andreasen2019-02-05T21:42:23Z5

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I needed advanced technical knowledge and he delivered by providing as much information as possible in the time that we had.